The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern .. . eed by de-grees, as your pattern directs , and be careful thatyour parallel Joynts, Smews\ or Mufcles9bo dire&lyoppofite; alfo that the Motion of the Body beanfwerable one part to another, and that the partsand limbs of the body have a due fymmetry; nota
The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern .. . eed by de-grees, as your pattern directs , and be careful thatyour parallel Joynts, Smews\ or Mufcles9bo dire&lyoppofite; alfo that the Motion of the Body beanfwerable one part to another, and that the partsand limbs of the body have a due fymmetry; nota great Arm, and a fmall Leg; or a fmall HW,anda great Finger, &c. Let not one part be too longfor another. Of all which, you muft know, thatat firft you will be apt to commit many errours,butbe not difheartned -, proceed, and your labour willnot be loft, experience is gained by pra&ice; be butdiiigent,and you will find more eafe than you couldimagine: at firft all things that are attainable feem:difficult; we have a good old faying, Nothing ishard to a willing mind, and I can fpeak it by expe-rience. I might fpend time to tell you many fto-ries how to proceed to Figures clothed, &c* butif you can draw a Naked figure well, for the orderof Garments, you will be able to do that with eafe. And 4» J. he tLXCUkncy of BOOK Part I. The Pen and Pencil. 43
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